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The Importance of Pay Transparency in India

Indeed Editorial Team · Indeed India (Hiring Insights) Free Beginner India

This is real India data, not a US survey with an Indian byline: 46 percent of Indeed India postings disclosed salary in 2023, with sector-level jumps (Finance up 122 percent, Engineering up 107 percent) and city-level splits. It tells an Indian founder that naming a band is now table stakes for competing on engineering roles, and flags the reality that there is no mandatory pay-disclosure law here, so it is a competitive choice, not a compliance one.

  • Salary disclosure in Indian job postings hit 46 percent in 2023 and is growing fastest exactly in the roles startups fight over (engineering, finance, AI)
  • Adoption is concentrated in Delhi and Mumbai, so disclosing a band is still a differentiator that makes serious candidates self-select in
  • India has no mandatory pay-transparency law, so putting the band in your JD is a deliberate signal of seriousness rather than a legal box to tick
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